About Me

I started fabricating things out of metal when I was very young. My dad raced stock cars and swamp buggies and I got my start welding at age 13 while learning about motors and racing. By 13 I was also racing stock cars. Over the years I built and raced stock cars, swamp buggies and mud boggers. I have made many things for myself and others such as utility trailers, bridges, and sculptures. I worked as a welder for only 1 year of my career making car hauler trailers. For most of my career I was a plasterer in Florida. After moving to upstate NY I worked in a variety of jobs in the construction field. I have only started exploring the artistic side of metal fabrication during the past five years. We started the metal business in 2006 to take my career in a different direction. It will take a while, but my plan is to fill this blog with pictures of many of the things I have built over the years. I hope you enjoy seeing some of my unique creations. My wife is actually writing this blog for me but she is presenting it from my standpoint with the information I give her. I am more skilled with a welder than a computer.

Showing posts with label handmade hydraulic press brake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label handmade hydraulic press brake. Show all posts

Friday, February 19, 2010

Homemade Hydraulic Press Brakes

I needed brakes to use with the products I make for our metal shop.  It was much more inexpensive to make them myself so they were exactly what I needed.  I already had the steel and the springs.  The only investment was the smallest jack. The top picture is a press brake I made to bend some of the things I make for our metal shop.  I use it to bend bookends mostly.  The middle picture is the unfinished second brake that is painted in the last picture.  I use this one to bend our napkin holders for the shop.  I have bent 10 and 14 gauge metal so far with them. 
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